There are a couple of deals going on that will let you get 4 different Marvel titles for $1.39 per issue, which includes mail delivery to your home. I'll explain how to get ANY subscription title you want instead of these.
If you buy these in the store, they are roughly $3.20 per issue with tax. Marvel's usual deal is about $25 for your first 12 issue subscription, and $23 for additional ones.
Here are the two deals that will give you the $1.39 per issue deals:
Over on the left side of both pages is the current list of Marvel titles available (interesting, I just noticed they added an Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter title, over on the right)
Now, having done this sort of thing several times, I'll let you in on how to transfer this deal to another title that they normally don't ever discount like this.
1) First, subscribe to whichever of the deals you want above. Do it multiple times if you want.
2) Next, check your email. You should now have an account number. Email subscripti...@marvelsubs.com, and request that they transfer your subs over to whatever title you want. They typically honor two of these requests a year. If you try to do more, they won't honor your requests for another 12 months. Just a heads up in case you want to build up a 6 year subscription to Thor, or something like that. You would need to purchase one of these deals twice, then transfer the resulting title(s) once, in order to get a 6 year sub to one title.
3) Once you've submitted the request, it takes about 3 months for the transfer to be made. You may receive 1-2 issues of the original title before you start getting the new one
My favorites:
Fantastic Four New Avengers New Exiles (kind of a cross between Quantum Leap and X-Men, where they try to repair the fabric of reality in alternate unverses) She-Hulk funny book
It probably costs Marvel 50c each to ship these out, so Marvel is only seeing about 89 cents an issue from this. I'm a reader, and not a collector, but I rarely have any problems with the ones that come in my mailbox. I get roughly 180 issues a year in my mailbox, and over the past 3 years, I've had 2 that didn't show up, and 3 that were creased. In each case, a quick email to subscripti...@marvelsubs.com took care of the problem. So normally the worst that will happen is that you'll end up with an extra copy that you can share with somebody.
Wow - I'm kind of surprised not a single response to this post. Nobody is interested in saving 57% off of their comics? It's like being able to get 2 years of a comic for the same money as you normally spend on one year.
OhioGuy wrote: > Wow - I'm kind of surprised not a single response to this post. Nobody is > interested in saving 57% off of their comics? It's like being able to get 2 > years of a comic for the same money as you normally spend on one year.
Why? I like going to my local comic book store. I've bought comics there for over 15 years. I can browse, read titles I don't get, argue with clowns who like Bendis, and hit on that girl with the black fingernails and Death Piggy shirt. If I really needed to save money, I'd cut out the comics.
> Wow - I'm kind of surprised not a single response to this post. > Nobody is > interested in saving 57% off of their comics? It's like being able to > get 2 years of a comic for the same money as you normally spend on one > year.
I've simply no interest in committing to =any= book for a year at a time unless the price of that commitment comes much, much closer to "free" than does this. As it is, I'm finding more and more that books to which I'm committing only a =month= or two in advance (via DCBS) to have been a waste of my time and money; why would I want to tie myself down, sight unseen, for a much longer period? For what amounts to a thirteen point discount on what I'm already paying DCBS? (Or a three point discount, or a twenty-two point penalty, depending on the book.) And to subject the books I buy to the vagaries of the US Mail, on top of all that?
No... thanks, but I'll pass.
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> why would I want to tie myself down, sight > unseen, for a much longer period?
Well, off the top of my head, maybe for the same reason that I have a 7 year subscription to Green Lantern, 8 year subscription to Superman, and close to a 10 year subscription to Fantastic Four built up? In other words, because you like the characters.
I also have something like 5 years of Detective Comics, and 6 years of New Avengers. Sure, the quality goes up and down a bit here and there, but I like to keep my favorites through the changes.
I also don't like paying any more taxes than I have to, and the subscriptions are tax free. With retail, I'd have to not only pay for gas getting there (road tax), but I'd also have to pay sales tax. It would add up to about a 10% overall tax for me, on an item that costs more than twice as much, retail than subscription.
So that tax comes out to about 20% of what I'm currently paying - not very attractive.
>> why would I want to tie myself down, sight >> unseen, for a much longer period?
> Well, off the top of my head, maybe for the same reason that I have > a 7 > year subscription to Green Lantern, 8 year subscription to Superman, > and close to a 10 year subscription to Fantastic Four built up? In > other words, because you like the characters.
> I also have something like 5 years of Detective Comics, and 6 years > of New > Avengers. Sure, the quality goes up and down a bit here and there, > but I like to keep my favorites through the changes.
Mm-hm. I have favorites too -- but there are many times when they're so poorly written or the books wind up being so poorly drawn that enough has to be enough. I'd hate to get locked in to a book that's become unreadable just because I liked the character four or five years before. (Or, in a case like the abysmal CYBORG mini, just a few =months= before.)
> I also don't like paying any more taxes than I have to, and the > subscriptions are tax free. With retail, I'd have to not only pay for > gas getting there (road tax), but I'd also have to pay sales tax. It > would add up to about a 10% overall tax for me, on an item that costs > more than twice as much, retail than subscription.
> So that tax comes out to about 20% of what I'm currently paying - > not very > attractive.
I don't pay a dime of tax to get my books from DCBS. Unless you live in Indiana (which, given your handle, I doubt), you wouldn't, either.
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